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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]They can try to shift the blame (and rightly so since the issues that are in the press really are about abusive families, not the agencies), but the law suit itself is against the agencies and they wont be able to loop in individual host families technically. I'm not a class actions expert so I hope our resident lawyer will chime in on this![/quote] Regardless of the lawsuit, HFs pay the wages and may be liable for missing wages under FLSA. That’s what’s discouraging me from using the program again. I can hire a babysitter and pay even more than the minimum wage because I don’t have to pay the agency fee. But I can’t both pay the agency fee and pay minimum wage ($11.50 where I live) and all household expenses for the AP, and take them out to dinner, etc. That would make an AP way more expensive than a nanny but frankly much less qualified and also unable to do the housework that nannies can do. [/quote]
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